India, June 8 -- US President Donald Trump's explosive row with billionaire Elon Musk, his biggest backer in the 2024 Presidential election, has raised only one question: Will it hurt the Tesla and SpaceX CEOS' businesses?

Trump warned of 'serious consequences' for Musk, but that was in the context of the world's richest man backing candidates against Trump's Republicans in next year's midterms.

"If he does, he'll have to pay the consequences for that," Trump told NBC, though he declined to share what those consequences would be.

It all started with Elon Musk's public criticism of Donald Trump's Big Beautiful spending bill, which he called a 'disgusting abomination'. That started what became one of the ugliest but also most-watched pub...